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Although Kurosawa's 1961 film Yojimbo is the most remembered samurai film of that decade, the 1962 sequel was even better.
Bullets, bombs, and bravery - such as the things that define heroism in action cinema. Whether they’re heroes or villains, ...
Akira Kurosawa's select features such as 'High and Low' will have 4K restoration premieres at the Film Forum.
Japan, 1952, 143 min “Yojimbo “ – New 4K Restoration The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa’s visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. To rid a terror-stricken village of ...
Creator of the iconic Usagi Yojimbo comic series, Stan Sakai was an ideal choice for our spring issue’s special feature on comic book creators. Sakai has been working on the series for over thirty ...
Akira Kurosawa is considered one of the most influential filmmakers of all time and now two of his best films, Yojimbo and Sanjuro, are finally available in a 4K Blu-ray Criterion Collection set ...
Director Akira Kurosawa and star Toshiro Mifune did some of their finest work together with this pair of films from the early 1960s, and the Criterion Collection has now released them in sparkling ...
In For a Few Dollars More, Clint Eastwood returns as Manco, along with Lee Van Cleef's Colonel Mortimer and Gian Maria Volont's El Indio.
Kurosawa reworked a screenplay of his own for 1962's Sanjuro, played for even more laughs, but with a greater quotient of swordplay, and this time Mifune sees crimson.